Bug#1115586: RFP: flare -- Unofficial lightweight client for Signal Messenger

Aryan Karamtoth <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:58:49 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.wnpp
Message-ID <7f7dad29-ac34-4e2b-bfb1-57676ed2b78a__20469.6656249993$1784719885$gmane$org@disroot.org>
Hi,

I attempted to take up on this RFP but there are some problems with the 
way how the upstream code is written.

It depends on flare-backend which has git dependencies pinned to 
specific commits. The Debian Rust Team has advised not to package this 
in its current state and advised to reach out to the upstream to clean 
up the codebase.

This will be a time consuming package and I don't have a lot of time to 
work on the package for now. If anyone's interested, please take over my 
work at: https://salsa.debian.org/spaciouskarter78/flare

There are a few rust deps that need to be packaged such as blurhash and 
a few others.

-- 
Regards,

Aryan Karamtoth,
Debian Maintainer

"Sic Parvis Magna" - Sir Francis Drake

Homepage: https://spaceports.in

IRC: spaciouskarter78
Matrix: @spaciouskarter78:matrix.debian.social

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